The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

Go where your best prayers take you.